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General Discussion / final fantasy 8 pc. Pocket station

« on: 2006-08-04 17:01:15 »

Probably a strange questions but is it possible to use final fantasy 8 for pc with an emulated pocketstation (if one exists)? Or can I use the psx ff8 on epsxe and then somehow emulate the pocketstation to get all the goodies? Thanks

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Troubleshooting / Need help starting out with ff7 programming

« on: 2004-07-09 15:07:38 »

Damn that does sound long. I'll change the amount of gil i have and then see what changes happen in the file. Thanks for the advice. Is that how qhimm made his jenova editor or did he do it another way. I have PM'd qhimm about it but no reply. Thanks again

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Troubleshooting / Need help starting out with ff7 programming

« on: 2004-07-09 11:26:37 »

Ok thanks for the advice Im slowly starting to understand it all but still have a few newbie questions, i hope this isnt annoying anyone. How do you know which part of the saved file needs to be edited? I mean say if i wanted to give myself ultima then how would i go about editing the save file? More precisely how would i go about finding which part of the save file needs to be edited? As i said earlier i dont wish to be spoon fed, all i wish to know is what i need to learn in order to do this . I'll worry about the check sum later. Infact i'll probably just use qhimms recalculate code at first to see if my editing works and then i'll worry about seeing how the checksum works. Thanks again for the advice

Mikeee

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Troubleshooting / Need help starting out with ff7 programming

« on: 2004-07-08 15:42:21 »

Thanks again for the reply. I will have to look into this LGP in more detail. I've thought about it a bit more and decided to change the outcome from the abusive language to editing the amount of gil i have. This is because i will only have to edit my ff7 save file( i think) rather than the actual game files which should be easier for a beginner like me . I had the idea of converting the amount of gil i have to its hex equivilent and then opening my saved game file with hex workshop and searching for that hex value and changing it, however the hex value wasnt anywhere in the file . So im not really sure how id go about making these modifications. How would this be done?

As you said it does seem that i am reinventing the wheel but once ive done this then maybe i can learn to do it (completely by myself) for the ffVI save game file. As i said it isnt the outcome that I want (otherwise id simply use Jenova) but its the knowledge i want.

Thanks again for your help.

Btw what would i need to learn in order to edit the files that the LGP tool extracts. Thanks

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Troubleshooting / Need help starting out with ff7 programming

« on: 2004-07-08 12:16:03 »

Thanks for the replies. As i said i want to learn how to do it. So using someone elses program to do it is cheating because it dont want to go from the start to the end without learning anything. It is the knowledge that i am after and not the end task. I can already programme in Pascal to an intermediate level and i want to add to this knowledge by learning how to edit games to suit myself which is why i've set myself this challenge. So what else would i need to know in order to complete this? ASM? Hexeditint? In other words what are the steps would i need to take to do this? I also see the LGP tools as cheating because it has been programmed by someone else.

I know this seems like a hard task for a beginner, but this is why im trying to learn the individual tasks in order to accomplish this. I will then learn the tasks and hopefully someday i'll have achieved the goal and then move onto another. Everyone has to start somewhere

Thanks again for the replies

Mikeee

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Troubleshooting / Need help starting out with ff7 programming

« on: 2004-07-07 14:16:33 »

I have no wish of having abusive language in the game. Im not programming it because i wish to have it, only to learn how to do it. The only reason why i selected that "abusive language" as my task as i thought it would be a good starting point for a beginner.

Thanks for the info.

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Troubleshooting / Need help starting out with ff7 programming

« on: 2004-07-07 11:46:22 »

Hi,

I've decided that I want to learn how to edit ff7 for the learning experience. I've set myself what i believe to be a relatively easy challenge and I want to know what knowledge I will need to acquire in order to accomplish this. I've decided to make a programme that will edit out the #!#?! string when Barrett and Cid swear and replace it with the proper words. I've created this thread so I can  ask questions about how id do it without being spoon fed the answers. I can programme well in Pascal but not sure whether this language is powerfull enough to achieve this. Apart from pascal or a language like C++ what other knowledge would i need to do this?

Thanks

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Troubleshooting / Griever doesnt load

« on: 2004-07-06 21:23:47 »

Actually cyberman you're right. I believe it is because i'm using winXP and it just doesn't like me loading it. I downloaded the source and it worked fine when i recompiled it in winXP.

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General Discussion / FFXI Import

« on: 2004-06-24 12:08:36 »

Hi all,

I was thinking of getting ffxi imported for the PC. I juat have a question before i do this.

I heard that FFXI was an online game, meaning that I cant play it without being connected to squares server. Is this true? and if so then how much money will i need to pay a month to be able to do this? Also as im getting the pc version then i take it i can just use my regular broadband connection?

Thanks

btw the reason why im posting here instead of searching the web is because im bound to come across a few spoilers for it and i dont want to take that risk

Thanks again

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Troubleshooting / Griever doesnt load

« on: 2004-06-23 20:40:29 »

Hi,

I downloaded griever and tried to run it but i get an error message saying "The application failed to initialize properly (0xc0000005). Click OK to terminate the application". I had to download the mfc70.dll file before i got this message. Im using windows XP. Can anyone help me get this working.

Thanks

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Archive / Ugly Graphics

« on: 2004-06-12 11:14:12 »

Thanks a lot

It was a registry problem I had. I just used a reg file that came with the nocd crack to reset it all and it worked fine

Sometimes some of the characters on the screen disappear for about half a second and then reappear. Anyone else expericence this? Also I cant seem to find the hands patch, it does sound cool. Also whats the denomic demon patch?

Thanks again for your help mate

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Archive / Ugly Graphics

« on: 2004-06-12 10:53:03 »

Thanks for the reply.

Since i last posted i got a little further on my own. First of all i installed the ff7 v1.02 patch from eidos and it sorted all of my graphic problems once i turned the nvidia option off in the ff7config. However I then cracked the new ff7.exe file with a no cd patch because I mainly bought this game for travel purposes. As soon as I did this and edited the registry accordingly the videos stopped playing when i ran the game. The graphics were still fixed for the ingame and the battle sequences.

Im sure i crakced it right but im not sure why the videos have stopped playing. Any ideas?

Also what is the denomic demon crash and what is the hand patch for? Thanks.

Oh btw i did intend to edit my first post but the edit button eluded me so i thought id just reply.

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Archive / Ugly Graphics

« on: 2004-06-12 10:20:51 »

oh btw im using windows xp

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Archive / Ugly Graphics

« on: 2004-06-12 10:03:43 »

Hi all,

First of all I have red the faq but i didnt really find what i was looking for. So far all I have done is installed ff7 with the maximum installation. Thats it, no patches or anything. The graphics look really ugly on ff7, everything about it. The writing is blurry, the fighting is blurry, the characters are blurry.

The graphics card I am using is the NVIDIA GeForce4 440 Go 64M (its a laptop card)

When i run ff7 config it says that everything has been passed for my graphics card. I was gonna install the Riva patch but i wasnt sure if this was the correct patch for my graphics card.

I dont want to install the AnimeVamp patch as noone recommends it.

Anyone got any ideas?

Thanks